My understanding is that we're open to supplementing any of the in game resources, assuming the result is good quality and captures the spirit of the original. In the mean time you could attach your music here in the forums for anyone interested.

Oh, cool – so there's already some original composition in there, and it sounds (from those links) pretty true to the original.

What I was talking about, specifically, is reimplementing the MIDI code, running it through some modern software instruments and having it ready as WAV files. In other words, it'd be the same songs, just sounding 'like real music', and it won't vary from soundcard to soundcard.

Of course, I'm not knocking the original music we know and love – it's classic – I'm suggesting an option in the jukebox to use higher-quality stuff, actual audio, that would have had too big a file size for the original game.

I think it would only be an issue of intellectual property, rather than physical property (ie, the ideas of the composition of the music, rather than the data that transmits music on the original CD itself). So it would probably infringe as much or as little as anything else in CorsixTH does – the concept, etc.

Have you guys actually given Bullfrog a shout and told them what you're doing? A third-party open-source project isn't necessarily bad for them, as it'll encourage more people to buy the original game – "hey I used to play that and now it's got this extra functionality, awesome!" Ka-ching!

Plus, if no-one's making money out of CorsixTH, isn't it on fairly safe ground in terms of copyright?

I've just got a new system, so I started last night. I've managed to isolate the MIDI tracks (musical data, basically), from the original and have been tweaking it. I'll let you know when I've got something tangible.